[TheList] Watercare Monitoring Stations

Wed Jun 19 08:06:11 AEST 2019

I apologise if this thread was sorted..    I have a Water Care pumping
station up the road and thought I would monitor for this exercise.

I found it on F Band Low as posted below..   Gets interesting here as it
appears the stations around me take it in turn to send their data so the
signal strength went from
in the noise floor to my pump up the road  that was almost full
quietening!   Bursts were very short and could be several minutes before
the group took off again...
I did monitor early this morning which may have been before the "morning
rush"  LOL.   Out of curiosity can this data be decoded to an ASCII level
or similar? Then again tracking my morning ablutions to
their final resting point....is that really needed?  Having a issue needing
urgent attention could be fun I guess??
[image: image.png]

Hope this helps..

Shane.

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 9:23 AM Keith <zl2tpq at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some scanners have a "Close Call" feature that will record the frequency
> of a strong signal.
> The Uniden UBC-126AT will record and display the frequency, modulation and
> the CTCSS / DCS  if any will appear in the display.
> If you have or can get a loan of such an item, it might save a lot of
> time. Especially if the data transmissions are short.
>  I have not used this mode, and my info is from the user manual.
>
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> What frequencys should I be trying?
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>> Mostly UHF although I think there are some sites using E band. If you hunt
>> around 450 - 480 MHz on your scanner you'll find channels which are
>> constantly transmitting (and some firing off intermittently) packets of
>> data. These are generally sh*t pumping stations, water monitoring and so
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>> Just wanting to know if our meters are on HF and or are encrypted?
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>> They have a Vodafone sim card in them (and are one of the reasons
>> Vodafone are still running 2G). There is an IR interface as well by the
>> looks of it.
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>> It depends on the type of smart meter you have. Some are on the mobile
>> network (2G was closed down from my understanding RS) and others are what
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>> Vodafone are keeping 2G going till 2025, I have a few devices that still
>> use it on a daily basis - 2degrees made the bad decision to kill off 2G.
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>> Didn't know we had those meters here, does anyone happen to have more
>> info on those?
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>> > It depends on the type of smart meter you have. Some are on the mobile
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>> > Vodafone are still running 2G). There is an IR interface as well by
>> > the looks of it.
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>> > On 8/06/2019 8:43 p.m., Leith Cullen wrote:
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>> >     Just wanting to know if our meters are on HF and or are encrypted?
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